Tuition waivers, valued at over $240,000, will be awarded to 12 All-Arizona Academic Team students from Northland Pioneer College to complete their bachelor’s degrees at one of Arizona’s three public universities. The Arizona Board of Regents awards the waivers, for up to 60 credits, to encourage the state’s top scholars to finish their education.
Receiving tuition waivers will be NPC students Tiffani Martin and Nicole McConnell representing the Holbrook Painted Desert Campus; Ashley DeMaria and Larrilynn Oso representing the Winslow Little Colorado Campus; McKenna Sargent and Jaden Willis representing the Show Low White Mountain Campus; Rhonda Krouse and Austin Stanislawski representing the Snowflake/Taylor Silver Creek Campus; Team members will also receive scholarships from NPC. Information about each student can be viewed in the full news release posted at www.npc.edu.
NPC nominees, along with other top scholars from the state’s other community colleges, will be honored at a luncheon on Feb. 27, in Mesa. NPC can nominate two students from each campus and center location to the All-Arizona team. A student must have taken a class at or originating from that location to be considered for one of the two nominations. To be eligible for nomination, a student must have a cumulative 3.5 or higher grade point average, be working toward an associate degree and demonstrate college or community volunteerism and leadership.
Arizona, for the past 24 years, has separately recognized the state’s top two-year college students as a part of the All-USA Academic Team program, co-sponsored by the American Association of Community Colleges, Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society (PTK), Follet Higher Education Group, the Coca Cola Scholars Foundation and USA Today.
